Brooke Shields grateful for Tom Cruise apology

Actress Brooke Shields has opened up about her reconciliation with Tom Cruise, calling his apology “genuine” after he slammed her over her use of medication to treat postpartum depression.

The Hollywood actor came under fire in 2005 when he stated in numerous interviews that Shields was being “irresponsible” for using psychotropic drugs after giving birth.

He told “Access Hollywood” at the time, “I care about Brooke Shields, because she’s extremely talented – and you think where has her career gone? What you can do with vitamins and exercise to help with that – she doesn’t know what these drugs are.”

Tom Cruise. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

During an interview with Shields on Tuesday, she told “Access Hollywood” that Cruise later apologized for his remarks.

She said, “He did reach out (to me) and I told him, ‘Why don’t you come here (to my house)’ – it was my home turf. But I wasn’t mad at him because he did himself in.

“I knew what he was trying to do, he just went about it the wrong way. And I said that to him. I said, ‘Look, forget who believes what or whatever, you had a point to make and you barked up the wrong tree.’”

Cruise’s bizarre rant came shortly after his famous couch-jumping incident on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in which he declared his love for then-girlfriend Katie Holmes, and Shields knew his latest tirade wasn’t helping his image.

She added, “That’s what I wanted to say, like, ‘You don’t have ovaries, so don’t be making a comment like this – it’s not going to help with the people.’ And he’s like, ‘I know. I don’t know why I attacked you… your mom was the one who took care of me on the set of (1981 film) ‘Endless Love,’ and I’ll never forget that.’… It was just genuine of him.”